Our Beach House

I'll give you a brief background of how we acquired this little house. We had an investment property a few years back that we bought, fixed up, rented, and flipped for a decent profit. Timing is always on our side, we are very lucky that way! Sea Isle City is a very small beach town and we had made in known that we were looking for a single lot on the south end of the island, known as Townsend's Inlet. We heard through the grapevine that this house was going on the market in the fall. So we hopped on our bikes, knocked on the door and basically we made an offer. It was "gentleman's agreement" and a few months later the place was ours.
The house is tiny 102 years old beach cottage. Built just for summers...no plumbing, heat, insulation in this baby. The previous owners did put in a bathroom and powder room. They occupied it for just over 25 years and left everything behind! EVERYTHING!!!! Over the past two years we have cleaned it out and painted the whole house from floor to ceiling! We try not to spend too much $$$ as our plan is to tear it down and build a new house someday. But, we are kind of hoping it will just fall down all by itself!!!

I made this sign out of the old porch step and some left over paint. It will hang by the front door but, it was too windy to leave it this weekend.

The living area was quite dark and dreary. A fresh coat of white paint, new furniture, well old but, new slipcovers, and we took up the carpets (there was more than one layer) and painted the floors. It really brightened up the space! I am working on new curtains for the living /dining area.

Oh, the kitchen...we painted the walls a bright lime green and the cabinets a robin's egg blue! I made curtains out of a fun striped fabric! The girls made the "art" above the dishwasher.

The bedrooms...each got a fresh coat of paint and curtains. We had already taken the pillows from the beds, you don't have to leave renters pillows!

So that's it! Not, the dream house we want...but, a place to build it someday!